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Olin Hyde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
170 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

The last one was Autosemantics, and we analyze social media feeds on the behalf of chief financial officers of public companies to identify and isolate pump and dump schemes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And that company was sold to a group out of Switzerland called AI1.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And after two years of AI One, I had the idea of starting what's now the Lead Crunch.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And it's been a fun journey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We're almost four years into it now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We started off in healthcare and actually we're training a system to be a physician, actually training the computer to be a doctor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we're able to modify that technology for marketing purposes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And along the way, we're able to beat IBM Watson and Palantir to win a Lockheed contract for the military, which taught us a lot about how to target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we're using that targeting technology to help mid-market companies find their next best customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

Well, we originally were going to sell one system to the DOD.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We got caught in sequestration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

There were budget problems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we really wanted โ€“ and we're doers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We like to get things done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And when you're a government contractor, you spend a lot of time in conference rooms listening to people speaking acronyms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we really like working with people to help their dreams come true.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

And we started off our product in our โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

private alpha, 1,070 small businesses signed up to try it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
799: SaaS: How He Grew To $200k MRR, $2m Raised at $7m Cap

We were monetizing that and we discovered that we actually got better results from a little bit larger size companies.

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